Gallery ALBANIA



My archive photographs from Albania, which span twenty years. 

We begin in the year 2000 when I lived and worked in Tirana and these first ones are of the two places in Tirana where I spent most of my time, the Rruga Abdyl Frasheri, where I lived in an apartment block (on the eighth floor) and the IRC offices where I worked, in Rruga Mujo Ulqinaku.

Tirana has changed so much in the past twenty years that there are some parts of the city centre which I can barely recognize. The outer appearance does not match the images in my memory. For me, the photographs from 2000 show a vanished time and in some respects, where the cityscape has been so altered, it's like a vanished place as well.

Looking down on Rruga Abdyl Frasheri 1

 Rruga Abdyl Frasheri 2 with Dajti mountain in the background








































Rruga Abdyl Frasheri 3













Rruga Mujo Ulqinaku 1

















 
Rruga Mujo Ulqinaku 2
















Roma musicians in the Rruga Mujo Ulqinaku


























Other street scenes in Tirana.


Archway from Rruga Bajram Curri








 













Fig tree near the Old Stadium (February)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 




 
Fig tree in early summer



















Buildings on either side of the Lana river.    



















 
Lana river in 2000 (left) and today (looking towards Dajte mountain)

 
Kruje
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Elbasan
 
The mountain road to Elbasan

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
View of mountains from the road to Elbasan 1

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
View of mountains from the road to Elbasan 2

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Entrance to Zera Jete School, Elbasan

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Zera Jete School, Elbasan

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 The Road South
 
Travelling south from Tirana on the coastal road 2000

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
Shkoder, 


 
Durres
 




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